First pick
Buisson de Massoury
Wood or forest
1,586 ha24.6 km of path
5 h 25 minto walk all 24.6 km of path
2.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Chemin Rural des MeuniersChemin du Four à ChauxSentier de la Garenne+1 path
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain45%woodland
Outdoors in Chartrettes · protected areas, woods and footpaths
45% of Chartrettes is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
No protected area reaches Chartrettes; the nearest, Massif de Fontainebleau (Natura 2000), is 1.2 km from the town center. 18 km of footpaths cross Chartrettes (1.8 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 8 km in Chartrettes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Massif de Fontainebleau, 1.2 km
Woodland
45%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
18 km
1.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.1 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Buisson de Massoury
Throughout this page, the Seine-et-Marne median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Chartrettes?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune45% mapped woodland, more than in 89% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes8 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyMassif de Fontainebleau (Natura 2000) is 1.2 km from the town center.
What sets Chartrettes apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Chartrettes compares with French towns
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Protected areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland45%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
89out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
52out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
77out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Chartrettes has the 9th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,604 to 2,662 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or (7.2 km per km²) to Hilsenheim (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 7.2 | 42% | 0% | 261 km |
| 2 | Gometz-le-Châtel Essonne | 2.5 | 24% | 0.2% | 155 km |
| 3 | Morzine Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 33% | 36% | 274 km |
| 4 | Champlan Essonne | 2.2 | 14% | 0% | 161 km |
| 5 | Dorlisheim Bas-Rhin | 2.1 | 12% | 0% | 442 km |
| 6 | Wahagnies Nord | 1.9 | 30% | 0% | 76 km |
| 7 | Les Vans Ardèche | 1.8 | 46% | 78% | 94 km |
| 8 | Coquelles Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 1.7% | 0.7% | 2.8 km |
| 9 | Chartrettes Seine-et-Marne | 1.8 | 45% | 0% | 198 km |
| 10 | Le Bourg-d'Oisans Isère | 1.7 | 33% | 100% | 180 km |
| 11 | Vinassan Aude | 1.7 | 20% | 65% | 9.2 km |
| 12 | Bourguébus Calvados | 1.5 | 1.1% | 0% | 18 km |
| 13 | Saint-Yorre Allier | 1.4 | 23% | 15% | 283 km |
| 14 | Longeville-sur-Mer Vendée | 1.3 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 15 | Bessèges Gard | 1.3 | 66% | 100% | 81 km |
| 16 | Villenauxe-la-Grande Aube | 1.3 | 13% | 0% | 223 km |
| 17 | Foug Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 73% | 1.2% | 342 km |
| 18 | Auboué Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 311 km |
| 19 | Cauffry Oise | 1.2 | 17% | 0% | 110 km |
| 20 | Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais Eure-et-Loir | 1.2 | 57% | 62% | 115 km |
| 21 | Taden Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 19% | 100% | 3.6 km |
| 22 | La Broque Bas-Rhin | 1.1 | 79% | 8% | 432 km |
| 23 | Vendres Hérault | 1 | 1.9% | 60% | On it |
| 24 | Montréjeau Haute-Garonne | 0.9 | 5.7% | 2.6% | 175 km |
| 25 | Ivry-la-Bataille Eure | 0.8 | 2.6% | 3.2% | 101 km |
| 26 | Villeneuve-Saint-Germain Aisne | 0.8 | 11% | 0% | 150 km |
| 27 | Marpent Nord | 0.7 | 15% | 0% | 133 km |
| 28 | La Calmette Gard | 0.7 | 29% | 0% | 43 km |
| 29 | Frelinghien Nord | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 51 km |
| 30 | Soual Tarn | 0.6 | 1.4% | 0% | 95 km |
| 31 | Le Thoronet Var | 0.6 | 49% | 31% | 29 km |
| 32 | Rieux-Volvestre Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 6.6% | 7% | 154 km |
| 33 | Trélon Nord | 0.6 | 78% | 100% | 156 km |
| 34 | Toury Eure-et-Loir | 0.5 | 0.8% | 0% | 180 km |
| 35 | Beychac-et-Caillau Gironde | 0.4 | 16% | 4.7% | 22 km |
| 36 | Montayral Lot-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 10% | 8.3% | 137 km |
| 37 | Noyers-sur-Cher Loir-et-Cher | 0.3 | 34% | 0.6% | 221 km |
| 38 | Clairac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 7.7% | 0% | 105 km |
| 39 | Ailly-sur-Noye Somme | 0.2 | 22% | 0% | 68 km |
| 40 | Haspres Nord | 0.2 | 1.8% | 0% | 111 km |
| 41 | Hilsenheim Bas-Rhin | 0 | 28% | 18% | 465 km |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Chartrettes
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Buisson de Massoury leads, at 1,586 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Île de loisirs de Bois-le-Roi
Park or garden · 60 m outside the commune
70 ha1.8 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.8 km of path
1.3 km south-eastfrom the center
Route de l'InspecteurRoute de Magenta
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Massif de Fontainebleau is the nearest protected area, 1.2 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Massif de Fontainebleau
1.2 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
18 km of footpaths and 8 km of hiking routes cross Chartrettes
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
Footpaths
18 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.1 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
45%
about 4.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ChartrettesSeine-et-Marne medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes0.8
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ChartrettesSeine-et-Marne medianFrance median
Woodland45%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 52% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 89% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. Every home in Chartrettes is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 212 km
Petit Barbeau2.2 km
Forêt de Barbeau2.1 km
Du Gâtinais au Morvan, Bois-le-Roi - Fontainebleau2 km
GR 2 passes within 2 km of Chartrettes.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Chartrettes: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Fontainebleau_Sapc, 9.4 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 54 | 53 | 59 | 67 | 60 | 62 | 59 | 61 | 68 | 67 | 72 |
March is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 72 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 74 nights a year. The climate in Chartrettes →
Neighbors
Next to Chartrettes
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Bois-le-RoiVaux-le-PénilLa RochetteDammarie-les-LysLe Châtelet-en-BrieHéricyChartrettes
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chartrettes | 0% | 45% | 1.8 |
| Bois-le-Roi 6,072 · 1.7 km | 18% | 31% | 2.8 |
| Vaux-le-Pénil 11,474 · 4.5 km | 0% | 27% | 2.4 |
| La Rochette 3,932 · 4.5 km | 56% | 67% | 3.6 |
| Dammarie-les-Lys 23,559 · 6.1 km | 26% | 35% | 2.7 |
| Le Châtelet-en-Brie 4,207 · 6.5 km | 0% | 18% | 0.6 |
| Héricy 2,507 · 6.8 km | 0% | 25% | 0.3 |
Bois-le-Roi, La Rochette and Dammarie-les-Lys have at least twice as much protected land.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Chartrettes
Is Chartrettes in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Massif de Fontainebleau, 1.2 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Chartrettes?
OpenStreetMap maps 18 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Chartrettes is woodland?
45% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Chartrettes near the sea?
No: the coast is 198 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Chartrettes?
April to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.